9 Lucky Crystals & Stones to Bring You Good Fortune

Crystals and gemstones are gifts from the Earth. Each stone has its own vibe, and in the world of crystals and energy healing, like attracts like. So, when you use or wear crystals with a lucky vibe, they'll bring luck into your life as well.

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Most people are familiar with the green variety, but jade comes in a multiple colors so you can use it to enhance feng shui elements in every sector of the bagua map. In China, jade has been valued throughout history as a material for sacred objects and chi boosters of all kinds.

Money and abundance are two qualities that jade amplifies. Be sure to get real jade for a money frog, a tabletop Foo (Fu) dog, jewelry, or another lucky object, since imitation jade doesn't have the same properties as the real deal.

Native American healers and traditionalists treasure turquoise for its strong health and well-being energy. But the beautiful, variegated stone is also an expression of the feng shui water element. It's prized for its power to attract money and wealth.

Most turquoise is worn as jewelry. Rings, earrings, necklaces, and amulets are all good ways to carry this stone for good luck in your life. Like jade, imitation junk abounds, and not all of it is obviously fake. It's worth spending a little extra time to find authentic turquoise.

Striking in its bold green and black patterns, malachite is effective at safeguarding you from shady business transactions and misfortune of every kind. Your luck will hold, unassailed, with the deep green stone set in a ring or carved into a candlestick. In addition to warding off a negative change in fortunes, malachite creates conditions for success in business. Try a malachite paperweight on your desk.

If you're a risk-taker, then aventurine is your lucky stone. Anyone who gambles, opens a new venture, or takes a chance can take comfort in aventurine's powerful wealth, winning, and good luck vibe. When you're not sure of the outcome, add aventurine to your home or business environment.

Blue aventurine is feng shui, literally wind and water, with strong yang energy that creates positive change. Red aventurine is both earth and fire, a stone for competence, confidence, and renewal. Green aventurine, the most common, is the "stone of opportunity," a manifester of wealth and prosperity. You have to keep this stone close, so wear it as lucky jewelry.

Ammonite (its most colorful form is ammolite) is a petrified fossil. The stone is all that remains of a sea creature that once inhabited inland oceans. Because the areas of color resemble the scales of Qilin, the legendary Chinese dragon-unicorn, the fiery rainbow stone is associated with riches, great wealth, and free-flowing chi. The seven dazzling colors of rainbow ammolite make beautiful jewelry, but a more subdued, fossil-like piece of ammonite belongs displayed on a shelf, altar, or desk.

A mineral (iron-oxide), hematite is a favorite feng shui remedy or cure stone for its strong protective quality. But it also represents the water element and the prosperity that comes from a career. For that reason, you could place a hematite turtle (one of the four celestial animals) in either your wealth corner or your fame and career area. The shiny black stone makes a very modern bracelet or anklet to wear when you want a double dose of money luck and protection in your travels.

Pyrite is also called fool's gold. The sight of it has deceived many a miner, yet it's considered a lucky stone for money and abundance. The shiny gold crystal has a strong geometric formation that results in interesting clusters for decor or desk ornaments, especially in the wealth area of a room. Slip a polished bit of pyrite into your pocket as an amulet or wear shiny pyrite as a faux-gold pendant necklace or drop earrings.

Magical amber is just ancient tree sap that time has turned to stone. But it takes millions of years for the resin to petrify, increasing the stone's value. Because it's an organic product, the hardening sap often caught unwary insects or bits of forest in it, adding another element of nature and mystery to the clear golden stones.

Amber brings success and good luck, and it shields against negative and electromagnetic energies. It is strung into beads and carved into amulets to be worn for both luck and protection. Rare, large lumps of it may be displayed on a pedestal, like a museum find or art gallery object in a living room, dining room, or home library.

Tektite is a silica stone. It's a kind of meteoric glass formed either by the impact of a meteor on earth, or it's pieces of a meteor itself. The stone is found in shades of dark greens and browns, cloudy, and pitted with translucent edges that glint gold when held up to the light.

Tektite is known for balancing energy and boosting mental clarity. The typically small pieces are carved into pendants or sold as amulets. Wear or carry tektite for an advantage in negotiations or to improve performance in a career or on an important test.

Use richly beautiful stones to boost your luck by placing them in auspicious corners of your home, slipping them as amulets into a purse or pocket, or wearing them as lucky jewelry.

Feng shui opens the door to a more intimate and intuitive relationship with the elements in your surroundings. Lucky stones and crystals are another way to focus on attracting good fortune and positive chi, and the origins and individuality of the stones have captured imaginations for millennia.

An ancient sage may have dropped that very pebble of jade you place on your meditation altar. That ammonite turned-to-stone may have swum once in a long-vanished inland sea. It's lucky that they have come into your life, and lucky again that the energy of the stones lends itself to you.